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Goodnight, Sugar Babe: The Killing of Vera Jo Reigle

  • 2020
  • 1h 27m
IMDb RATING
6.1/10
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Goodnight, Sugar Babe: The Killing of Vera Jo Reigle (2020)
BiographyCrimeDocumentaryDrama

The discovery of the mutilated body of a mentally challenged young mother begins a journey into madness that is so unbelievable the mastermind behind the crime ultimately got away with murde... Read allThe discovery of the mutilated body of a mentally challenged young mother begins a journey into madness that is so unbelievable the mastermind behind the crime ultimately got away with murder.The discovery of the mutilated body of a mentally challenged young mother begins a journey into madness that is so unbelievable the mastermind behind the crime ultimately got away with murder.

  • Director
    • J. David Miles
  • Writer
    • J. David Miles
  • Stars
    • Lisa Baer
    • Danny Bixler
    • Desta Bixler
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  • IMDb RATING
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    • Director
      • J. David Miles
    • Writer
      • J. David Miles
    • Stars
      • Lisa Baer
      • Danny Bixler
      • Desta Bixler
    • 51User reviews
    • 1Critic review
  • See production info at IMDbPro
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    Lisa Baer
    • Self - Vera's High School Teacher
    Danny Bixler
    • Self
    Desta Bixler
    • Self
    Jamie Bracy
    • Self - Voices for Vera
    Kevin Brooks Sr.
    • Self
    Cheri Brooks
    • Self - Sugar Babe
    Chuckie Brooks
    • Self
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    Garth Brooks
    • Self
    Michael Brooks
    • Self - Sugar Babe's Third Son
    Punky Brooks
    • Self
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    Shannon Brooks
    • Self
    Zachary Brooks
    • Self
    Alan Cap
    • Self
    Sara Courtney
    • Self - Vera's Friend
    Scottie Emmons
    • Self - Sugar Babe's Eldest Son
    Charlotte Ethell
    • Self - Sugar Babe's Mother
    Jessica Flugga
    • Self - Sugar Babe's Cousin
    Allen Garner
    • Self - Vera's Uncle
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      • J. David Miles
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    10mrsaalvarado

    VILE

    Just when I thought I saw it all in regards to the worlds most disturbing films....enter this. This story hits from every angle in which the human race can be the most disgusting and vile on the planet. Not often do I watch something with my mouth hanging open the whole time in awe... but with this... it seemed to just get worse and worse. This is real life folks. This is not a movie. So if you want to witness life at it lowest point, where every person is a victim turned demon, please look no further.
    5taedirish

    Inbred horror story

    Firstly, I agree with the other reviews that believed this film seemed to be more about the hillbilly family than the victim or her murder. Secondly, I've never seen so many f*caked up teeth in one film. With the exception of perhaps 4 ppl in the entire film (none of which were part of the family) everyone had the most twisted, funky grills. Most all the boys in the film were either inbred or had clear traits of some sort of disability. In short, a family of white trash recruits a mentally disabled woman to live in their house and be their slave. The mother (a toothless, 400lb woman in a wheelchair) controls a syndicate of hoodlums made up of her welfare sons. The mother convinces the 22yr old special needs woman to get pregnant by her 16yr old son, in hopes of her having a little girl. Again, let me emphasize the rotten teeth... The mother clearly is a sociopath with severe mental limitations, with a perverse obsession with baby girls. After the mentally disabled woman has the baby, the cult mother has her killed by a couple of the kids living in the house. There is almost no attention given to how or why society allowed this poor disabled woman to be abused and murdered by this family with a combined IQ of about 30. The brooks family was clearly bred to either do manual labor in prison, become members of the MAGA movement, or to appear in another Hills Have Eyes movie. And yet, these ppl continue to breed in multitudes...
    7dnvn0525

    Just disturbing!

    I don't want to give the director a bad review but justice wasn't served and these disgusting people all deserve to be punished for what they did to this young lady. Ugh!! Wish someone would ever do that to someone I know yet alone related too! The state prosecutor/ city lawyer should be fired too! I'm just upset justice didn't fully get served
    6misskayleigh-42479

    No justice. No peace.

    I gave this movie a six because I love crime documentaries. However while this is that, it seems less about the very tragic life of Vera, and more about how this jaba the hut of a womans evil puppeteering caused an entire family to become complete animals and brutalize another human being for fun before ultimately murdering her for the sole purpose that they no longer had fun doing it. The police and everyone else in this pathetic town should be held accountable. Every single person let this woman down but that disgusting family should be in prison for the rest of their days. One family member couldn't help but smirk and smile each and EVERY SINGLE TIME he saId ANYTHING about what happened to this womab. They are all guilty and not a single one of them deserve to see the light of day ever again except at yard time in prison. This sugarbear is as vindictive as the crazy woman from Evil Genius. It goes to show you true evil is walking (waddling?) among us and weather you believe in a God or not, it's plain to see real evil exsits. This family is proof. I understand they wanted to do a documentary about this hienous crime but i think the focus was on the wrong subjects. Vera was only the backdrop even in a movie about the crime that was her murder. Its a shame, for her and her poor daughter, the moment she ever laid eyes upon the Brooks family. May she rest in peace.
    4marigold_bay

    Where is the court system?

    What happened to aiding and abetting being a crime???

    Every single person that was EVER in that house was part of this crime. (Oh yeah, I would go to their house for pizza and Vera would be getting shoved in the oven, but boy the pizza was good)

    WHAT? WHAT ?

    My brain is stuck.

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